Save Elsewhere

THE SENTINEL column by Douglas Pike about the need for a slowdown in Social Security increases was printed in the Las Vegas Review Journal and needs to be answered.

Does Pike know that about 6 tons of letters were dumped on the doorsteps of the White House protesting any tampering with Social Security and federal pensions?

Social Security is a separate entity. Social Security taxes should not be used to reduce federal deficits, as Pike suggests. American workers pay into it as the federal workers have had to pay -- 7 percent of their wages.

Protecting Social Security is not a political ploy, as Pike says. The people on Social Security became angry at what the Republican Senate was trying to do to us.

There are many ways to get more money rather than from Social Security, such as cutting defense spending and making corporations pay their share of taxes.

I am sure that Pike knows of other ways that the White House can save money if the people in charge would stop pampering their rich friends.